Satan is not destroyed then, but tied up for a thousand years, and then released. If I go out on an analytical limb here and imagine that both prophets’ Gog of/and Magog references occur at the end of the thousand-year reign, then I am forced to ask myself the same thing about Armageddon and the second, final war.īut at the end of chapter 19, the wild beast and false prophet are being destroyed as a result of Armageddon. Not all the prophets’ accounts about the last days cover the same details, and the details in Revelation are not in chronological order, so one can imagine the prophecies unfolding in different ways. 25:29-38)Ĭan it be referring to the first attack or the second? What about Jeremiah’s parallel account? ( Jer. Why doesn’t John’s account have a more easily identifiable parallel account to that of Ezekiel’s? While this makes sense within the framework of our current understanding of these prophecies, it brings up another set of questions. In this case, “Gog and Magog” is alluding to the original attack on God’s people before Armageddon, but literally refers to a second attack before a second, final war with God. Satan, infuriated, will lure some away from God, influencing them to form new groups, like nations, that rule themselves and reject God’s heavenly king. One way to explain there being nations ready to war against God at the end of Christ’s reign is to draw the conclusion that not all will accept God’s authority. 16:13,14 17:12-14)īut in John’s “Gog” prophecy, the wild beast has already been destroyed, and the one directly misleading the nations is Satan. 38 & 39)Įzekiel’s prophecy seems to take place before Armageddon, in an attack headed by a coalition of nations otherwise known as “the wild beast” and the “false prophet.” ( Rev. The “Gog and Magog” referred to in this passage is apparently different from the one in Ezekiel’s prophecy. If nationalist divisions are done away with during Christ’s millennial reign, where do the nations comprising “Gog and Magog” come from? ( Dan. “Now as soon as the 1,000 years have ended, Satan will be released from his prison, and he will go out to mislead those nations in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Maʹgog, to gather them together for the war.”
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